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File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1865: Inventor, physician, chemist [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] dies. His work had a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that maintained 'the scientific do not patent'.
File:Ioannes Faulhaberus Mathematicus Imperialis Ulmæ Natus.png|link=Johann Faulhaber (nonfiction)|1580: Mathematician [[Johann Faulhaber (nonfiction)|Johann Faulhaber]] born. He will discover Faulhaber's formula, which expresses the sum of the ''p''-th powers of the first ''n'' positive integers.
File:Nietzsche.jpg|link=|1866: [[Friedrich Nietzsche (nonfiction)|Friedrich Nietzsche]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] terminology to restate his doctrine of eternal return.
 
File:Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet.jpg|link=Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|1859: Mathematician [[Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet]] dies. He made important contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. Dirichlet was one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.
 
File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1868: Inventor, physician, chemist [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] dies. His work had a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that maintained 'the scientific do not patent'.
 
File:Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs.jpg|link=Lazarus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1833: Mathematician and academic [[Lazarus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs]] born. He will contribute important research in the field of linear differential equations. Fuchs will be the eponym of Fuchsian groups and functions, and the Picard–Fuchs equation.
 
File:Karl Jansky.jpg|link=Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|1933: The New York Times The New York Times publishes a front-page account of a scientific paper on radio astronomy by [[Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|Karl Guthe Jansky]].
File:Karl Jansky.jpg|link=Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|1933: The New York Times The New York Times publishes a front-page account of a scientific paper on radio astronomy by [[Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|Karl Guthe Jansky]].
File:Karl Menger 1970.jpg|link=Karl Menger (nonfiction)|1965: Mathematician [[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]] uses formalized definitions of the notions of angle and of curvature in terms of directly measurable physical quantities (ratios of distance values) to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
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  • 1580: Mathematician Johann Faulhaber born. He will discover Faulhaber's formula, which expresses the sum of the p-th powers of the first n positive integers.

    1580: Mathematician Johann Faulhaber born. He will discover Faulhaber's formula, which expresses the sum of the p-th powers of the first n positive integers.

  • 1859: Mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet dies. He made important contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. Dirichlet was one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.

    1859: Mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet dies. He made important contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. Dirichlet was one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.

  • 1868: Inventor, physician, chemist Charles Grafton Page dies. His work had a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that maintained 'the scientific do not patent'.

    1868: Inventor, physician, chemist Charles Grafton Page dies. His work had a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that maintained 'the scientific do not patent'.

  • 1833: Mathematician and academic Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs born. He will contribute important research in the field of linear differential equations. Fuchs will be the eponym of Fuchsian groups and functions, and the Picard–Fuchs equation.

    1833: Mathematician and academic Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs born. He will contribute important research in the field of linear differential equations. Fuchs will be the eponym of Fuchsian groups and functions, and the Picard–Fuchs equation.

  • 1933: The New York Times The New York Times publishes a front-page account of a scientific paper on radio astronomy by Karl Guthe Jansky.

    1933: The New York Times The New York Times publishes a front-page account of a scientific paper on radio astronomy by Karl Guthe Jansky.

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